The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-07-07
MAI. BURKEON THE INDUSTRIAL
SOUTH.


SOUTH.
Mai. E. A. BURKE. is we'll known
to many Of our readers as one of the
managers of the New Orleans Exposi-
ton of 1884, and previously to that
time as successful journalist and
financier. In recent interview, he
expressed himself in very hopeful
! terms in regard to the industrial out
look in the South. There is no get
ting around the fact that there must
be some radical changes in matters
before the South can ever become
very prosperous-changes, such as the
reduction of the tariff, the abolition
of the internal revenue, and the cur
failing of pension lists, all of which
drains the pockets of the Southern
people and go largely towards the
building up of Northern industries or
filing up of private Golfers. The pen
sion list alone is heavy drain upon
Southern pockets TOR The dement, OF
Northern soldiers.
The writer who said that the North
ern soldiers whom we did not kill, we
badly wounded, did not, Judging from
the pension list, miss the mark a
thousand miles. But in spite of all
these things, Maj. BURKE tells many
things that are encouraging. Let US
hope that our tar-sighted statesmen
will remedy some of the evils men
toned above; but in the meantime
take courage from Maj. BURKE's
words. Listen to him for few mo
ments
"The fact of the business is, the
South has the richest soil, the best
minerals and forest, 80 per cent, of
all the arabic land in the United
States, and can offer cheap homes to
fivefold our present population, in a
land where they can work twelve
months of the year. We have $780,,
100000 acres covered with forests and
the value of our pine alone would,
if cut and marketed, be equal to the
present total assessed values of all the
Southern States. Every Southern
community is earnestly soliciting i'm
migrants from the North. We want
skilled mechanics, farmers and fruit
growers.
:. GIN 1926 Presidents jackson, Madi-
son and Monroe lent their presence to
the southern boom by attending the
sale at Florence, Ala, where town
lots sold as high as $4,000. These
prices were based upon the expecta
tation of furnaces, coal mines and
manufactures. The difference be-
tween the boom of our daddies' and
that of to-day is that we have built
the furnaces and are building more.
Gas we are on the subject" he con-
tinued, IL may as well give the young
men of the North who contemplate
changing homes pointer and some
of your elderly manufacturers may
profit by it.
owe have raised a very good crop
of boys since our little unpleasantness
ended twenty-four years ago. They
are hammering iron, making buckets
and tubs and mastering the agricul-
tural implements you kindly sent to
our expositions, instead of spending
their time bossing darkies. l don't
think they have begun to make wood
en- nutmegs as yet, but they are at
work. Their 'daddies' have pretty
generally gone to work since they dis
covered that, under the provisions of
the civil service regulations, mo Con-
federate need apply for Office embrace
ed within the classified lists. More
over, in every Southern State agricul-
tural and mechanical schools have
been established, and more are being
built. In our twenty-one industrial
schools we have 1926 boys receiving
industrial training now, and hope
soon to increase the number to 1O0,-
600. Every littls rebel OF this new
crop is arming himself to fight for the
industrial independence OF the South
He is not afflicted with the slightest
sentiment of disloyalty to the odd
lag Ou GAO COAbl al y, pdITIOIIC
feeling is growing in him. These
boys have discovered that the South
has Bessemer ores enough to supply
the market with cheap American
steel and patriotic instincts prompt
them to look forward to the time
when they will fortify the country,
build up the navy and reduce the sur
plus.
"By the time this new crop of boys
is turned loose in the forests and on
the iron hills, their papas viii, at the
present rate of increase, have money
enough to build them shops and buy
them tools and machinery, and then
there will be trouble for the manu-
facturers over the border"
OUR CHANGE AND IT'S WHERE
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